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Manuel Alcalá Kovalski
Education
B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)
University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2019
Philadelphia, PA
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- Relevant coursework: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Computer Programming, Econometrics, Microeconometrics, Microeconomic theory (Graduate), and Macro-modeling.
Work Experience
Senior Research Assistant
The Brookings Institution
Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Washington, D.C.
Current - 2019
- Authored the official R package for Brookings branded ggplots
- Led data science trainings on R package development, data manipulation in R using the Tidyverse, and version control using Git and GitHub for 65+ staff across the entire organization
- Developed an R Shiny app which scrapes over 20 economic research websites to centralize information on new working papers. This app is deployed weekly to sort and identify content for the Hutchins Roundup blog since 2019.
- Created data visualizations used in blog posts, conferences, and internal reports to communicate insights from macroeconomic data in an accessible manner.
- Produced and delivered parametrized reports to evaluate our GDP forecast during monthly Fiscal Impact Measure updates.
- Automated code testing, linting, and running using CI/CD pipelines
Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar
Leonard Davis Institute
University of Pennsylvania
2018
- Analyzed data on 322,264 hospital admissions admissions using logistic regression in Stata to undestand how physicians respond to cost-sharing programs.
- Cleaned and summarized data from a randomized control trial evaluating the effectiveness of data-driven adaptive learning approaches.
Undergraduate Researcher
Health Management and Policy Department
University of Miami
2018 - 2017
- Conducted data analysis on projects related to health services research using R, Stata, and Python
- Performed data cleaning and regression analysis using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.